Category: museum news

  • Current SoCal Exhibitions

    Some current or soon-to-open shows for your weekend viewing: Santa Barbara Museum of Art:  The Yinka Shonibare show closes on June 21; also on is ” Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow” The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana:  “Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt’s Etchings” (also “ Art of the Samurai: Selections from the…

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  • Son of Stinky set to bloom at Huntington

    The famous “Corpse Flower” at the Huntington Garden and Library is set to bloom again any day now.   This plant, which smells like rotting meat when it blooms, only opens up once in several years, and only stays in bloom for a few days.   It’s been growing 3 to 5 inches every day for the…

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  • Newly expanded American galleries open at the Huntington

    The Virginia Steele Scott Galleries, a part of The Huntington Art Collections in San Marino, have undergone an extensive expansion and on 30 May reopened to the public. The new space houses a growing American art collection, which will be displayed in an area more than twice its previous size.

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  • SFMOMA’s “Artscope” – new visual browsing tool

    The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has introduced Artscope, a new way to browse 3,500-plus works from their collection.  It employs a magnifying- glass feature that allows you to zoom in on a work from a large mosaic, or grid, of images.  Or you can type in or select terms to focus your search. …

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  • Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University closes

    The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University has posted on its website that its last curated exhibition closed this month and the university will “repurpose” the space in late June. Also on the chopping block: some of its permanent collection. As you can imagine, the closure of this institution (with the possible sale of its…

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  • Annenberg Space for Photography now open

    Red Dot visited the new Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City on the weekend and found it an interesting experience on many levels. The physical space is fresh, and rethinks the way photography can be exhibited and viewed. The current show on eleven Los Angeles-based photographers covers a wide array of content, style, technique,…

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